Being Human

"Today we practice making free your mind of all the laws you think you must obey; of all the limits under which you live, and all the changes that you think are part of human destiny." -- A Course in Miracles

"Idols are limits. They are the belief that there are forms that will bring happiness, and that by limiting is all attained. It is as if you said, "I have no need of everything. This little thing I want, and it will be as everything to me." And this must fail to satisfy, because it is your will that everything be yours. Decide for idols and you ask for loss. Decide for Truth and everything is yours." -- A Course in Miracles

"Hence Christianity and the Science which expounds it are based on spiritual understanding, and they supersede the so-called laws of matter." -- Mary Baker Eddy

Being human is what we have drilled into us from the time we enter the world. "You're only human," becomes the catch-all for limitation of every description. Being 'superhuman' is idolized with larger than life celebrities and sports figures. But even those Olympic athletes that inspire are limits placed on the rest of us... they are somehow special and apart as we revere them. So it’s easy to see that the definition of idols that A Course in Miracles uses is very apt. Idols are limits we place on ourselves, to keep our little kingdoms intact, at least in illusion.

When I come from a place limitation, of human apparancy, I find only evidence for that. When I come from knowing the Allness of God to be the only Truth and my only Home, the illusion of the human viewpoint becomes self-evident. The Allness of Love means that we are IN Love... and as ACIM puts it, "Love created me like ItSelf." So not one belief in human need or limitation can possibly be real, no matter what it looks like. The Bible passage, "Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils" refers to this. It's not that we are asked to withdraw from our apparent humanness... it's that when we see that we are not limited to the human we are a transparency for the Limitless which is our true home. "Man whose breath is in his nostrils" does not know himself as a Son or Daughter of God.

Being human is only another aspect of the dream... nothing special and nothing to be proud of or ashamed of. As ACIM reminds us, there is no hierarchy of illusions. We forgive our illusions and remember that Love created us like ItSelf... and there is no Will but God's. Only One.

"Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all things." -- Mary Baker Eddy